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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I think people from out of state think it’s in the LA area, but if you live in LA it’s pretty far away. I [/b]drive past it on my way to the desert (Palm Springs), and it’s surrounded by exurban wasteland.

However Claremont itself is an oasis in a pit!! The campus is gorgeous and the little downtown district is very cute. I can see why it’s popular.  [/quote]

I think that too.  East coast kids think "Wow, Los Angeles!" and it's not.  Pomona, has, however, done very well riding up the USNWR rankings so it's now hot simply because it's highly selective.[/quote]

?? It has ranked at the top of US News since inception. There wasn't anything to "ride up"[/quote]

Exactly. This conversation seems to be people on one side of the country speculating with low information.  At my large UMC high school in a Western state, the 5Cs were very much known and it wasn't about the beach or LA. NESCAC were not talked about, people who went East focused on Ivy's. No doubt that's changed. But 5Cs were the stealth wealth move, and came with same bragging rights and trappings as the Eastern SLACs would in the East.[/quote]

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